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I´ve been fascinated by the idea of using philosopher Ken Wilber‘s Integral model as a basis for psychographic text analysis for some years. I started out by reading his material and a couple of years ago I started working on text analysis models. The Integral model put together by Ken Wilber is often referred to … Read more

What about the cat

I had a mail conversation with a highly intelligent person this morning about modelling. “you can´t model the interior” he said. I beg to differ. The challenge and great opportunity of our age is to model the interior based on signals in the exterior, such as language, behaviour and consumption patterns. “Good science” will have … Read more

Whether you communicate professionally or personally there are four fundamental aspects to it. Any firm that claims to be full service needs to deliver on all four quadrants.     It´s very rare for the same person to be proficient at all aspects and, as a team, it´s very rare that people that are naturals … Read more

A tweet by Bobby Bear has gotten retweeted and Bubba Bear has been wondering if there is some pattern behind what tweets get retweeted. That leads them to psychologists and text analysts such as James W Pennebaker and social media scientists such as Dan Zarella. They even mention yours truly! Trailer: Watch the full movie … Read more

Cute Bear Philosophers

When you look upon the Internet through the eyes of philosopher Ken Wilber´s integral model (AQAL) you see that the inner “psychology” of the Internet is a perspective seldom discussed. These cute bears have a discussion about it and touches upon Google AI project, Kevin Kelly´s notion of the One Machine and Ray Kurzweil´s ideas … Read more

I held a little workshop here at Ängsbacka today about getting started with social media and(postpost-?) modern tools like Google Docs, Reader etc. We started out by the discussing the WHY´s about using these tools. Why change? Most people today are used to using a mail-client and Microsoft Office and a lot of people working … Read more

When you look upon the evolution of Internet it shows a striking resemblence with any evolutionary process, e.g. the evolution of human society. However, the Internet has evolved through different stages in an extremely short period of time in comparison to other evolutionary processes. Tweet

I believe that it is possible to predict people’s interests by looking at their written language. This can be done by identifying a few psychological traits that shine through in personal relaxed texts such as Tweets or blogs. To accomplish this, we need large amounts of data on each individual and large amounts of individuals … Read more